Effects of Isha Hatha Yoga on Core Stability and Standing Balance.

Context • Isha Hatha yoga is a form of yoga practice that practitioners claim can improve health. Gaining a scientific understanding of its effects on health is a crucial step in claiming health benefits. Objective • The study intended to investigate the effects of Isha Hatha yoga on core stability and standing balance in healthy volunteers.

Plasticity of visual attention in Isha yoga meditation practitioners before and after a 3-month retreat.

Meditation has lately received considerable interest from cognitive neuroscience. Studies suggest that daily meditation leads to long lasting attentional and neuronal plasticity. We present changes related to the attentional systems before and after a 3 month intensive meditation retreat.

Measurement of the effect of Isha Yoga on cardiac autonomic nervous system using short-term heart rate variability.

Background: Beneficial effects of Yoga have been postulated to be due to modulation of the autonomic nervous system.

Objective: To assess the effect of Isha Yoga practices on cardiovascular autonomic nervous system through short-term heart rate variability (HRV).

Design Of The Study: Short-term HRV of long-term regular healthy 14 (12 males and 2 females) Isha Yoga practitioners was compared with that of age- and gender-matched 14 (12 males and 2 females) non-Yoga practitioners.